Man found dead, shot in chest in Cragin neighborhood

Peter NickeasTribune reporter

Chicago police found a man killed by a gunshot wound to the chest in the Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, according to police.

Police found the 22-year-old man dead in the 4800 block of West George Street about 2:30 a.m., said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro, who described the incident as a homicide.

Brian Cherney was dead at the scene, a spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner's office said. He lived in the 4800 block of Wolfram Street one block south, the spokeswoman said.

Police arrived on-scene after paramedics, and initially saw that the man had blood coming from his nose and mouth, leading them to believe he suffered head trauma. But after medical examiner's personnel and detectives came on scene, they were able to determine the man had been shot in the chest, police said.